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German Language and Literature, Department

Philosophische Fakultät

Universität Potsdam

Philosophische Fakultät
Institut für Germanistik
Am Neuen Palais 10
D-14469 Potsdam
Telephone: +49 331 977-4215
https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de
Uni Potsdam
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Basic information

Teaching staff at the department

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Total number of students at the department

420

Number of master degree students (w/o teacher qualification)

40

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

14/16 points

International orientation

Outgoing students

1.0%

Job market- and career-orientation

Percentage of teaching by practitioners

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Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's

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Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

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Library

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Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

15

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching in the bachelor's degree programme

Research- and practice-oriented, interdisciplinary, methodologically demanding seminars (practical module: "Archive, Book Culture and Institutions of German-Language Literature", "Cultural Contact, Literary Transfer and Interdisciplinarity"), also with a digital focus; International Cooperation; Comparative German Studies focus; Interdisciplinary alliances and networks (e.g. Early Modern Centre, campus schools); Comprehensive didactic continuing education opportunities for lecturers; Practice-oriented and empirical work; Excellent support

Special features regarding teaching in the master's programmes

Research- and practice-oriented, interdisciplinary, methodologically demanding courses (practical module: "Archive, Book Culture and Institutions of German-Language Literature", "Cultural Contact, Literary Transfer and Interdisciplinarity"), also with a digital focus; Comparative German Studies focus; Interdisciplinary alliances and networks (e.g. Early Modern Centre, campus schools); Didactic continuing education opportunities for lecturers; Practice-oriented and empirical work; Excellent student-teacher ratio, involvement in research projects including transfer projects, high degree of internationality

Special features regarding the international orientation

Blended mobility teaching projects in Erasmus+ university partnerships, "Media Practices of the Enlightenment" (2016-2019, with Bordeaux, Riga and Tartu), "The Future of Cultural Heritage" (2019-2022, with Krakow, Bologna, Riga, Athens, Bordeaux, Luxembourg, Copenhagen) and European university alliance "European DigitalUniverCity" (2019-present). Institute partnership Potsdam-Tartu-Riga (2019-present); Double Master's degree "International Literature" with Bordeaux (UBM, since 2020/2021); German Studies component for international students of German Studies; Erasmus partnerships (currently ten countries)

Special features regarding the equipment

Access to the database information system in the subject area German Studies, Dutch Philology, Scandinavian Studies; In the work area German as a Foreign Language/German as a Second Language, access to specific digital databases and printed text collections, as well as self-created corpora; In the work area German Linguistics/Language Use, access to specific audiovisual corpora (e.g. parent-child interaction); Eye-tracking laboratory under development.

Special features regarding research activities

Digital Humanities; Computational Literary Studies; Sub-project "Philology" in the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) research project "FoLD. Research | Learning. Digital«; Cooperation with cultural institutions and literary archives; The research focuses and projects are oriented towards comparative German studies; Trilateral research conferences (e.g. France, Italy); Linguistic research projects; Participation in research groups on language contact; Multilingualism Research; Participation in the Collaborative Research Centre 1287 The Limits of Variability in Language

Other special features

Advice on completion of studies

Further information on research activities

Information on access restrictions

Website of the Student Council

online-application

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Last Update 2025: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education